Wairere Falls

After Hobbiton, we headed back toward the Pacific coast, stopping for a hike up to view Wairere Falls, the North Island's tallest, at 155m. The walk took us through now sub-tropical forest, along a torrent, up a canyon, to the look-out on a cliff opposite the falls. Palms of one sort or another are now common in the forests as are the parasites one sees on nearly any tree of age. After Fiordland and the South Island, it seems like a riot of bio-diversity.